Google Apps dropping support for older browsers

Sad to see they don't even mention Opera. I don't use it, but it should run google apps without problems.<p>Also i know very big companies that still use IE6, sadly. For those people stuck without admin access and ancient browsers: Give Firefox Portable a try, it saved my day last week ;)<p>Apart from that, go google go! I like this move and more websites should just do this..

Dropping support for older browsers shows why Google Apps will continue to struggle against Microsoft products for government contracts such as was the case recently in San Francisco. Large organizations get locked into legacy OS's for many reasons - example government agencies who bought and rely on geospatial data in Autodesk Mapguide format.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapguide" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapguide</a><p><a href="http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112&#38;id=9454886&#38;linkID=9242099" rel="nofollow">http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112&#38;...</a><p>And yes that is a plug-in for Netscape that is still available!

This is damned good. <i>If</i> organisations continue transitioning, hopefully it'll up the pressure to keep updating browser versions and internal resources.

Interesting. These aren't really what most people would consider older browsers.<p>It looks like two years is their support cutoff, based on when FF 3.5 came out.

You know sometimes it really annoys me that I work somewhere that only supports IE7. Good thing that jobs thread came up today.

<i>the current and prior major release of Chrome...</i><p>Ouch! that means Chrome versions[0] older than March 2011 won't be supported?<p>[0] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome#Release_history" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome#Release_history</a>

Very glad to see them dropping the older browsers. Hopefully more web companies will follow giving legacy companies impetus to upgrade.<p>Narrowing their list of modern browsers so tightly is a little worrying though, any standards supporting browser (opera?) should be considered, otherwise they could be enforcing a cartel of current browsers.

Well if Microsoft feels threatened by Google Apps, they know what to do: release IE10 quick smart and watch the entire corporate and government world suddenly not be potential customers of Google any more as Google drops support for IE8 (and hence Windows XP).

Why are big enterprises so resistant to change browsers?

This is great.

wohoo :)